“While we are not yet ready to predict whether an individual will develop Parkinson’s, we hope that this method could soon become a pre-screening tool for people at risk of disease.”
Moorfields linked OCT eye scans from over 100,000 patients to hospital admissions across England and found Parkinson’s markers an average of seven years before diagnosis. The UK Biobank replicated it. The scan takes about a second and high-street opticians already own the machines. Wagner credits the NHS, one unified provider holding every record, for making the study possible. A fragmented health system can’t run it.